Motivational Quotes

Action

The common conception is that motivation leads to action, but the reverse is true -- action precedes motivation. You have to prime the pump and get the juice flowing, which motivates you to work on your goals. Getting momentum going is the most difficult part of the job, and often taking the first step is enough to prompt you to make the best of your day.

- Mckain, Robert J.

Best Quotes about Action

My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

Two-thirds of promotion is motion

Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

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Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

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An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

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You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

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In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

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The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

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Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

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If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

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Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

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When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Be both the gardener and the rose.

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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

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What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

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The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

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Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

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The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

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This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

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Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius